What Are The Effects Of Getting AIDS

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Getting Started: Basic Skills for Effective Social Work with People with HIV and AIDS

In: HIV and Social Work: A Practitioner's Guide David M. Aronstein and Bruce J. Thompson, Editors ©1998 The Haworth Press, Binghamton, N.Y. Printed copies of this article are available from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-HAWORTH... Read more »

Is AIDS Getting Its Second Wind?

From the fall of 1996 through the first half of 1998, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported encouraging reductions in the death toll from HIV/AIDS. At least some of the reduction has been attributed to the effectiveness of the new... Read more »

AIDS Vaccine May Be Far Off, but Path to It Is Getting Clearer

In his latest Washington Post opinion piece , columnist Michael Gerson highlights scientific efforts to create an AIDS vaccine, noting the work of researchers at the Vaccine Research Center. "In the short and medium terms, neither injected... Read more »

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Side effects not getting better

I have been on Sustiva, Epivir, and Videx EC for the past month. I didnt get any rash or dreams, but during the day I feel as if I am drunk. I also have crying spells, difficulty concentrating, fatigue and dizziness. I thought after a month this...

Response from Brian Conway, M.D.

University of British Columbia

You came to the right place and definitely asked the question at the right time. I am writing this answer from Warsaw, Poland, as the European AIDS Conference winds up. There was a study presented by Drs. Ward and Kantor from Washington DC. They... Read more »

Have you ever thought of getting your patients off meds?

Dear Dr. Bruce:Knowing that so many HIV positive people are now living healthy and happy without taking HIV meds, and knowing the severe side effects associated with most if not all of the meds, have you ever considered taking a different approach...

Response from Bruce Dezube, M.D.

Harvard Medical School

Dear Jim: Most of my patients who are doing well, are doing well because they are taking their medications. On occasion some do take a "drug holiday". The side effects of the medicines pale to the side effects of full-blown AIDS. I try... Read more »

Worried about getting HIV? Please, please help!

Hi! I read so much about possibility if HIV transmission but I am still very worried. Please help me! I am gay guy and dealt with HIV positive guy from January to September 2011. He states that he has undetectable virus load and I am tend to trust...

Response from Richard Cordova III

Test Positive Aware Network

Hi there:Three months is the amount of time it takes to get an accurate HIV test result. Nothing you described would be considered a high-risk activity. Kissing, mutual masturbation, and oral sex are all low-risk, and safer sex activities. Bottom... Read more »

Getting closer to a hiv cure ???

Hi Dr Keith, please keep up the great work you do keeping us alive and hopeful living with hiv, can you please answer is this getting closer to a cure for hiv ???Dr Keith did the paciants cd4 count all jump over 200 cd4 after the gene theary...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

I was at that presentation who was very intriguing but a long way from broad applicability and would likely be very expensive so even if further studies over the next years are successful cost would likely be a factor for broad use but important... Read more »

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Getting tested together first. Getting tested now.

Posted by don

Both you and your potential sex partner can get tested together first
before beginning the sexual component of the relationship.
The strategy reduces a great deal of ambiguity.

You, yourself can get tested today, now. Test results reduce ambiguity
and... Read more »

My husband is getting better--I am so glad

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

My husband is up and out of bed this past week. He has AIDS-now I am hoping to get him back in HIV status. His viral load is over 100,000 and his cd4 count was under 20. Symptoms of aids wasting, almost 30 pounds in a month, and he was so sick and... Read more »

Safe, Natural & Effective HIV/AIDS Treatment

Posted by MICA_INC, 2 Replies

SEEKING CLINICAL TRIALS SPONSORSHIP & VOLUNTEERS

We are trying to get HIV Groups & Organizations, Medical and Pharmaceutical Institutions, and Universities and the Medical & Scientific Communities aware, informed and interested in MM-1,... Read more »

getting through to others

Posted by SunshineSR, 2 Replies

I have in the past spoken a few times to small groups at colleges, schools, and a youth group about HIV/AIDS and what its like living with it. I am going again in a week or two and I would love to hear from others as to what they think would be... Read more »

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